"About Us" is a

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song by

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featuring rapper

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. It was released as the first single from Brooke's debut album ''

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'' in June 2006 in the US and remained the only successful single in her career. The music video premiered on June 25, 2006, after the season two finale of ''

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'', in which Hogan prepares and then films the video for the song. The song is the first single released by

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's record label, Storch Music Company. Hogan was the first person signed to this record label. DJ E-Rock collaborated a Bay Area

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remix of the single, featuring lyrics from

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and beats from

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Track listing

US Promo CD # About Us op Mix3:29 # About Us ony Moran & Warren Rigg Up In My Bizness Radio Mix3:58 # About Us rossover Mix3:24 # About Us all Out Hook0:07 Remixes # About Us p In My Bizness Club Mix9:11 # About Us M / WR / JdB Infusion Dub9:33 Moran & Rigg Remixes Promo CD # About Us p In My Bizness Edit3:41 # About Us p In My Bizness Club Mix9:12 # About Us p In My Bizness Mixshow Edit6:57 # About Us M / WR / JdB Infusion Dub9:35 # About Us ccapella) 9:19

Music video

The budget for the video was $300,000 and was shot in California. In the video, Brooke does a work-out/dance routine in a gym with a jump rope. Later, she goes to a club and dances along with her backup dancers. The video ends in the club with a dance competition between Brooke's "crew" and a rival crew. In some scenes she is seen wearing rhinestone-encrusted sunglasses, a pair of Grill (jewelry), grills given to her by

for her 18th birthday. She also is depicted in a

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and has a dance-off with other girls. The video premiered on ''

'' on June 25, 2006. The music video also premiered on ''

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'' on July 24, 2006 as a PRE-RL. Later on, ''

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'' premiered the video. A snippet of this video was seen on ''

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'' weeks later, infamously mocking the lyrics ''"I'm just trying to live, but you're all up in my grill..."''.

Chart performance

"About Us" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending August 19, 2006. The song was the Hot Shot Debut of the week, landing at number 53. In its second week, the song went from number 53 to number 33, where it peaked. It is the highest peaking song of Brooke Hogan, and the second highest peaking song of Paul Wall.Chart trajectory for the song
On the

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chart, it peaked at number 21.

''Allmusic.com''. Accessed 2008-01-27.

References

2006 songs 2006 singles 2007 singles Brooke Hogan songs Paul Wall songs Song recordings produced by Scott Storch Songs written by Scott Storch Songs written by Poo Bear Songs written by Paul Wall {{2000s-pop-single-stub